Research Groups

NUMA holds the following groups:

• Reference Architectures for Cooperation Networks (AR-C) - Its purpose is to develop architectures of references to networks in dynamic productive systems. The architectures are structured in agreement with the EKD methodology (Enterprise Knowledge Development) that permits the organizational modeling aiming the participation of recourses and competences to increase the gains in competitive credits.
  Associated Professor Fábio Müller Guerrini

• Life Cycle Engineering - Its creation came from the necessity of knowledge and scientific researches applied to the environmental adjustment and manufacturing in answer to the increasing society demand for high environmental performance products, better to say, available products to attend to the human necessities with the minimum environmental impact during their life-cycle.
  Professor Doctor Aldo Roberto Ometto (Coordinator)
  Associated Professor Daisy Aparecida do Nascimento Rebelatto
  Titular Professor Henrique Rozenfeld
  Titular Professor João Fernando Gomes de Oliveira
  Titular Professor Marcelo Perreira de Souza

• Integrated Engineering and Integration Engineering (EI2) - This group deals mainly with projects management; products development process management (GDP) / products life-cycle (PLM – product life-cycle management); processes modeling; and application of information systems.
  Titular Professor Henrique Rozenfeld
  Professor Doctor Daniel Capaldo Amaral

• Quality Management and Business Change (GQM) - Its formed by graduation and post-graduation students in Production Engineering from the Engineering School of São Carlos from the University of São Paulo. The GQM has as its main aim to promote the study and application of concepts, methods and tools to the improvement management and changes in the enterprises.
  Associated Professor Luiz C. R. Carpinetti

• Change Management and Organizational Improvement (GMO) - Change Management and Organizational Improvement has researched and developed methodologies and specific techniques to support the transformation processes. Its aim is to support the enterprises and their agents, providing patterns of references to the change process.
  Associated Professor Antonio Freitas Rentes

• Logistic, Organization, Systems and Society (LOGOSS) - The aim of LOGOSS is to accomplish studies and researches about the Excellence Logistic Structures, prioritizing the following themes:
  Implantation and operational methods; Necessary Competences; Applications Non-profitable organization. The group also develops works in the implementation of didactic sceneries in the Logistic area (Physical Distribution: Storage Management).
  Professor Doctor Marcel Andreotti Musetti

• Manufacturing Process Optimization (OPF) - the OPF is the Laboratory of Optimization of the Manufacturing Processes of NUMA. Its researches are focused on the Metal-mechanic processes of machining. The actuation areas include the research about the phenomenology of processes, tools and solutions developments, simulation of forge processes and high speed machining. The automation of the processes is also a subject of OPF’s researches. It includes the factory’s technological information management via CNC and the remote control and monitoring of the machines and robots via internet. The OPF has been supported by international partners, providing the results of its researches to the main industrial centers of the present time, thus its site is in English.
  Titular Professor João Fernando Gomes de Oliveira
  Associated Professor Reginaldo Teixeira Coelho